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I’ve been back to Luke at Artfuel, Inc for two more sessions since posting about the camera tattoo. My right arm is turning into a self-portrait - things I like and where I am from.

Here’s a photo from about six weeks ago:

We added three cardinals and dogwood flowers - Virginia state bird and flower. The cardinal on the inner bicep (which is a painful area) was unfinished, so I went back last week, where I also got a southern-pointing compass on my inner forearm, as seen below (with another roll of film and more dogwood flowers to tie it all in together):

As it stands now my upper arm is covered and my inner forearm goes maybe halfway down. I’m loving the work so far, Luke is a great artist and I think the style, color and subject matter fit me well. I have some ideas on what more to do on the arm - one thing I’m stuck on is something computer related that fits aesthetically, will still look cool in 10 years, and sort of fits in with the old-school camera and compass I have.

I highly recommend going to Wilmington, NC for tattoo work at Artfuel!

It’s Sunday and I’m down in NC because two days ago I got more ink on my arm - more on this later. While here I got some photos of some of my Mother’s recent work before they got taken to a show at the local arts council - she is absolutely killing it lately, these boxes are awesome.

See the other four boxes on my Flickr set - click here.

A couple of months ago I got my first tattoo. If you want to see the whole thing check out a photo Luke did right after it was done here. I tried to take photos of the tattoo but because of how hard it is to do myself and how silly I am this is what I came up with. I wanted to get this photo done since Friday it will no longer be my only tattoo

Oh and long time no post. I should pay more attention to my blog.

Was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago for a convention… Between how busy the convention was and the 107 degree heat I didn’t get out much with my camera - I did get this off the walkway between New York, New York and the MGM.

There are a few more photos available here.

Classic.